Slave Zone not Updating......

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Julien Matthieu
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:32 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Slave Zone not Updating......
> 
> 
> try in your named config file to do this ( or something like this )
> this is for your master
> 
> <-- start here >
> zone "example.com" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "myzonefile";
> 	allow-transfer {
> 		192.168.1.1;
> 		192.168.1.2;
> 	};
> };
> <-- ends here >
> 
> the 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 change it to what you want


This is not the problem.  The changes required are on the Slave, not the
master.  Also, it is not bind denying the request, it is an OS file
permission issue.  BIND must be able to write out the slave backup file
and temp files (as specified in named.conf on the slave).  


Dave...

> 
> Have fun
> Julien
> 
> 
> 
> Zack Odell wrote:
> > I have a problem with my slave zone not being able to update from
the
> > master.
> >
> > I can see that the master server is trying to allow the transfer,
but
> > on the slave server I get the following:
> >
> > named[4175]: dumping master file: /var/named/tm-XXXjdICtn: open:
> > permission denied
> >
> > named[4175]: transfer of 'azcmr.com/IN' from 192.168.10.2#53: failed
> > while receiving responses: permission denied
> >
> > named[4175]: transfer of 'azcmr.com/IN' from 192.168.10.2#53: end of
> > transfer
> >
> > Now I know that this is probably a permissions problem, but where do
I
> > begin to look to correct this problem?
> >
> > Do I need to change the permissions on this file in /var/named?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated!!
> >